Align a div to center

Solution 1:

There is no float to center per se. If you want to center a block element inside another do this:

<div id="outer">
  <div id="inner">Stuff to center</div>
</div>

with:

#outer { width: 600px; }
#inner { width: 250px; margin: 0 auto; }

Now that won't make the text wrap around it (like it would with a float left or right) but like I said: there is no float center.

Solution 2:

This has always worked for me.

Provided you set a fixed width for your DIV, and the proper DOCTYPE, try this

div {        
  margin-left:auto;
  margin-right:auto;
}

Hope this helps.

Solution 3:

The usual technique for this is margin:auto

However, old IE doesn't grok this so one usually adds text-align: center to an outer containing element. You wouldn't think that would work but the same IE's that ignore auto also incorrectly apply the text align center to block level inner elements so things work out.

And this doesn't actually do a real float.

Solution 4:

Following solution worked for me.

  .algncenterdiv {
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    }

Solution 5:

floating divs to center "works" with the combination of display:inline-block and text-align:center.

Try changing width of the outer div by resizing the window of this jsfiddle

<div class="outer">
    <div class="block">one</div>
    <div class="block">two</div>
    <div class="block">three</div>
    <div class="block">four</div>
    <div class="block">five</div>
</div>

and the css:

.outer {
    text-align:center;
    width: 50%;
    background-color:lightgray;
}

.block {
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    border: 1px solid lime;
    display: inline-block;
    margin: .2rem;
    background-color: white;
}